KDDI is set to launch a solar-powered cellular phone in Japan sometimes in the summer. The picture shown above is the solar-powered concept phone that will be developed by Sharp. According to KDDI, the phone will feature a big solar panel, which could provide up to 1 minute of talk time or 2 hours of standby time for 10 minutes of sunlight. KDDI is confident that this still unnamed solar-powered phone will on sales by June of 2009.

This news is kind of old. However, in case you miss the release of this amazing phone, you should keep reading this post. Sharp released the world’s largest touchscreen phone, Sharp 931SH, on 1/31/2009. The 931SH has a 3.8-inch Half-XGA LCD screen, bigger than iPhone’s 3.5-inch. Plus, the 931SH has a 5.2-megapixel digital camera, Digital TV (One Seg) support, 3G, GPS, and video call. No wonder iPhone 3G sales lag in Japan, when there is a better equipped touchscreen phone out there in Japan.

Sharp, the mobile phone giant of Japan, released two brand new cellular phones in China last month – Sharp SH1810C with 8-megapixel digital camera, and Sharp SH6010C with 3.2-megapixel digital camera and stainless steel casing. The SH6010C has common Japanese style flip phone design. Lets’ have a clear look at the Sharp SH6010C phone.

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The Sharp 930SH phone is a world-class camera phone for users who want to take high-quality pictures. Its built-in camera features and specifications blow any competitor anyway easily. The phone comes equipped with 8-megapixel CCD camera with advanced camera features, including, ISO 2500, face-detection, Pro Pix, 4-seconds night flash, and etc. Plus, the phone is equipped with a 3-inch New Mobile ASV screen in 854 x 480 resolutions. If you live in the United States, please don’t hope that this phone will land in United States anytime soon, unless you have friends in Japan, who are willing to ship the Sharp 930SH phone to you.

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Sharp Launch a powerful multimedia phone, Sharp WX-T825, in Taiwan. The mid-level T825 slider phone is equipped with a 2.8-inch high-definition 240 × 400 pixels display with ASV technology, a built-in 2.0-megapixel digital camera / camcorder, Stereo Bluetooth connectivity, and microSD memory expansion slot that supports up to 4GB of memory upgrade. One of the coolest feature of the phone is its built-in motion detector that can rotate screen, change pictures, and etc. Let’s see how the motion detector in the video.

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June, 4 – Softbank showed off the latest waterproof Sharp 824SH and Panasonic Tropical 823p phones at an official launch party in Japan yesterday. Softbank demonstrates the operation of Panasonic Tropical 823p phone in water, as captured in the photo above.

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Why we can’t have Japanese phones that are much cooler than the phones (except iPhone) that we have in United States? It is not fair !

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March 16, 2008 – Japan has sent another fine style to us in the way of a mobile phone. The sleek and stylish new FOMA handset features a clamshell design and a large 1.8 inch 400 x 240 resolution TFT screen. The Sharp FOMA SH705ill cell phone also comes with the features users will be looking for in a new handset. A 3.2 mega pixel camera on board will make picture taking on the go quick and convenient with this handset. A 0.8 inch 96 x 39 resolution monochromatic OLED display will also make showing off all your pictures a real pleasure. Users also have the option of expanding their internal memory by utilizing their microSD memory card slot and uploading or downloading information onto their handset.

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Sharp secretly announced a brand new flip phone, the Sharp GX33 that comes loaded with decent features and specifications. The Sharp GX33 isn’t the best looking Sharp phones that you ever seen, in fact the outlook of the Sharp GX33 is very old-fashioned looking which makes most of the consumers stay away from this phone. However, the Sharp GX33 does have nice features and specifications such as 3.0-MP digital camera and 1.9″ 262K TFT screen.

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Do you think Japanese craves for iPhone like we do? Absolutely not! The cell phone in the pictures is the newly released Mobile TV phone from Sharp, the Sharp 913SH, that comes loaded with gigantic WQVGA Mobile ASV LCD (picture quality is close to HQ TV’s). The Sharp 913SH slider phone also has built-in 2.0-MP digital camera, Mp3 and Video player, and digital TV player. Although the Sharp 913SH doesn’t has cool multitouch technology of iPhone, the 913SH tv phone has features and specifications that iPhone couldn’t offer.

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What is the next big wave in cellular phone industry? It is the TV phone. Sharp in Japan released a brand new cellular phone, Sharp TV phone is SH704i, that comes with ASV LCD screen that parable to Sharp AQUOUS Hi-Definition LCD TV. It supports Wansegu Digital TV programs in Japan. Because of that, the Sharp SH704i comes with an antenna so that user can receive better reception in building.

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Sharp together with Softbank announces brand new TV phones, Sharp 913SH CDMA phone. The Sharp 913SH is a slider phone that features a big 2.8″ wideQVGA (240 x 400 resolution) touch screen which makes it looks very alike to Apple’s iPhone. As name suggest, the Sharp 913SH is a TV phone, hence it comes with features that allow you to watch high quality on-demand TV channels.

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